Dollar Baby
Celebrated director Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption & The Green Mile) started his film career by adapting this story into a short film in 1983. Darabont sent King a short letter in 1983 asking for permission for him to adapt the short story into a film and King agreed because he thought that the idea of students taking short stories and adapting them was a good one.
It is famously the first Dollar Baby. Stephen King has also said that it is his favorite and it is because of Darabont that he created the Dollar Baby.
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Famous quotes containing the words dollar and/or baby:
“Commercial to the core, Elvis was the kind of singer dear to the heart of the music business. For him to sing a song was to sell a song. His G clef was a dollar sign.”
—Albert Goldman (b. 1927)
“For the baby suckles and there is a people made of milk for her to use. There are milk trees to hiss her on. There are milk beds in which to lie and dream of a warm room. There are milk fingers to fold and unfold. There are milk bottoms that are wet and caressed and put into their cotton.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)